With respect to the theological view
of the question. This is always painful to me. I am bewildered.
I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I
cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do,
evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There
seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade
myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly
created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their
feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat
should play with mice.